GED® Academy Reading
The GED Academy reading course is designed to improve ABE, pre-GED, and GED® students’ ability to gain meaning from written passages and prepare students for higher education or the workforce. The reading program focuses on developing comprehension, application, analysis, and synthesis skills, based on written passages. It covers workplace and community documents as well as literary nonfiction, argumentation, literary prose, poetry, and drama.
Many adult learners have critical gaps in reading, and learners need background in thinking about reading and understanding overarching concepts in reading. GED Academy lessons bolster students’ reading skills by teaching background skills that aid in reading comprehension. The GED Academy reading course is designed to bring reading skills up to a secondary level.
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Reading Content
Comprehension
Before adult learners can move forward, they must understand the basic meanings of text. Students learn to identify the thought or clear implication given in the text, to restate or paraphrase information to show understanding, and to summarize main ideas. Comprehension lays the groundwork for further understanding and more complex meanings.
Application
Application is an essential skill for reading in real-world scenarios, and one that students will use in multiple subject. GED Academy students learn skills to identify ideas, concepts, and principles in their reading, and to apply those principles to new situations.
Analysis
In the GED Academy reading course, students learn to draw conclusions, understand consequences, and make inferences based on text. In prose, poetry, and dramatic readings, students learn to identify elements of style and structure. In argumentative readings, students learn to recognize assumptions and distinguish conclusions and supporting statements.
Synthesis
As students bring together more complex ideas, they must synthesize information within a reading or from multiple sources. Students learn to integrate information from outside the passage with what they’ve read, as well as learning to understand organizational structure, tone, point of view, and style. Students identify the author’s meaning and intent using multiple elements in a reading, compare and contrast, and make connections among parts of the text.
Reading Background
The GED Academy provides a background in reading for adult learners, including familiarity with reading and literature terms, skills to improve reading, and skills to increase vocabulary and understand unfamiliar words. Learners are exposed to information about types and purposes of reading and reading skills such as skimming and scanning.
GED Reading Test Familiarity and Practice
The GED Academy prepares students for the GED reading test with information about the test, its format, and what to expect. Students practice with numerous authentic GED-style questions and learn how to approach GED reading questions, think them through, and make good answer choices.
Reading Lessons and Exercises
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